Just signed up to at91 and confirmed account via email link. But it seems I do not have permission to even read the contents of the PRODUCTS forums, never mind post in them... how am I supposed to use these forums?

E.g. clicking on the SAMD20 forum shows a forum page with:

SAM D20 Cortex-M0+ MCU
You do not have the required permissions to read topics within this forum.

The information I got from the webmaster is that there was a corporate decision to make the MCU portion of this site read-only. There was supposed to be an announcement post to use the alternate Atmel site for MCU products:https://community.atmel.com/forums/atme ... based-mcus

Can you tell us which forum you are talking about. What was the URL that you tried for accessing a post in the forum? Where this URL was coming from?
Was your account new when you tried to access this post?
I've just checked that we can access posts even to the legacy read-only forums (even not logged-in).
Please be more specific.
Best regards

I recently posted a quesiton regarding nand flash on the SAMA5D27 SIP on my custom board. The moderator moved it to the SAMA5 CPU forum, where eventually a reply was posted from BlueZ. However, if I attempt to reply, I'm told that I do not have access to post to that forum. Is there something I need to do?